It is highly recommended that
you begin this section on prayer by reading the subjects PRAY AND GET
ANSWERS—HOW? and then the section PRAYER—WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.

God’s
Word to you is the Bible. Read and study it daily and faithfully. We suggest
not less than 5 chapters a day. Guidelines on this subject should be found under
BIBLE DESK—HOW TO STUDY.
Always pray for wisdom and understanding before study. Never come to God’s Word
with a "know-it-all" type of attitude. Come to God’s Word in humbleness
and meekness. Did you know God’s Word teaches us to even tremble at His Word?

Whatever
thoughts you have that you might think are from God need to be compared with
God’s Word.

Many throughout
the world pray to a God that they know nothing about. They go to a church, sing
some songs, hear a few verses of Scripture and then return home. Their life
does not reflect Jesus. They are what one might call a good, moral type of person,
but they are not born-again. They need to repent and humble themselves.

A person
needs to know and understand God.

SOME GUIDELINES
FOR PRAYER MIGHT INCLUDE:

1-Beginning with the Lord’s prayer.

2-If there is any person you hold anything against—forgive them.

3-Confess and repent of known sin. Humble yourself.

4-Praise and worship God.

5-Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

6-Pray God will send workers into His harvest field.

7-Pray for the head of your country and for officials in high positions.

8-Pray
for your enemies.

9-Pray for any that are against you and persecute you.

10-Pray
for your neighbors, friends, family, relatives and others.

11-Pray
for lost souls to be led to Christ.

12-Pray
for fellow born-again Christians that they will bear good fruit and be perfect
and complete in all the will of God.

13-Pray that your
own attitude will reflect Jesus more and more, and you will bear the fruits
of the Spirit.

14-Pray
that you will draw closer to God. (You draw closer to God through faith which
comes from hearing, reading and studying God’s Word and repenting.)

15-Ask for
God’s guidance and direction in all matters, including how He would have you
serve Him. Do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

16-Are you
sick? Pray for others that are sick.

17-Pray
you may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men.

18-Make
your needs known to God.

19-Pray
for wisdom and understanding of God’s Word, and then obey God’s Word.

20-Pray
that God will send you people to witness to. (When you witness, your own personal
testimony of how you came to Jesus may be good and also use God’s Word, not
other worldly stories.)

21-Pray,
regarding those to whom God sends you, that He will prepare their hearts to
receive His Word.